history

Antoinette van Brussel is married with
Gerrit Westerveld, graphic designer.
Her sister is Anneke van Brussel, fine painter.

In the distant past she worked with oligofrenic children in Den Dolder; with handicapped people in ‘Het Dorp’ in Arnhem; with children who came for partial compulsory education in Winterswijk, and she was a teacher at an LHNO school in Bergen op Zoom.

From 1980 till 2007 she worked in her own studio, especially with clay but she also made little bronzes and worked in stone and other materials.

Antoinette exposed at home and abroad.

In 1976 Antoinette and her husband got a house with a possibility for two studios.
In 1979 she assisted to build her own studio.
In 1987 Antoinette stayed for 6 weeks in the little village of Juruti on the Amazon river in Brazil. Together with German friends, she built a kiln for an Indian collective of potters in Juruti.

In 1988, 1989 and 1990 she had work periods to sculpture marble in Azzano near Carrara in Italy.
In 1988 she was participating in the international ceramics symposium ‘Iris’ in Porvoo, Finland, where she participated together with Jeroen Bechtold, Maaike Klein, Takeshi Yasuda, Norihiko Ogiso, Jindra Vikova and others.>

In 1989 she participated in a ceramics workshop of the World Crafts Council, in Rumst, Belgium.
In 1990 Antoinette worked with red sandstone in Steinbach near Donnersberg in Germany.
In 1991 she participated in an exhibition in the old casemate ‘Mosede’ in Køge, Denmark.

Between 1992 and 1994 she worked regularly in Zornheim near Mainz, where she could fire her ceramics in a wood fired kiln in which flames and melt down ashes coloured the sculptures.
In 1995 Antoinette made an installation for
‘De Loods’ in Bergen op Zoom.
In 1995 she had a solo exhibition in the museum ‘Markiezenhof’ in Bergen op Zoom.

In 2003 she wrote a protest song for a cleaner Bergen op Zoom. ‘Hoe schoon is Bergen’.
In 2006 she wrote the quarter vision for the quarter Fort-Zeekant-Glacis in Bergen op Zoom.

In 2007 Antoinette was invited to be artist in residence for a three months period to work in the ceramics studio of a traditional Japanese Master. The Taiwanese ceramist Samuel Hsuan-yu Shih, also worked there. After seven weeks she escaped the ceramics master and Japan. Read more...